The risks of increasing people’s access to over-the-counter medicines may outweigh the benefits, warn experts in this week’s BMJ.
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Drug costs have been increasing during 2007, especially those mainly prescribed to elderly.
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Patients could be saved millions of trips to their GP under a new scheme that has the potential to revolutionise the system of prescribing medicines.
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Allowing the drug industry to supply information on prescription medicines direct to patients in Europe will have serious implications for public health, warn experts in this week's BMJ.
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A multi-disciplinary group of researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) has won a competitive, $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to revolutionize the way researchers develop and test pharmaceutical drugs.
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The labels on most prescription drug containers highlight the pharmacy’s name or logo rather than instructions on how to take the medication, reports a new study in the September 10 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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New Boxed Warning Applies to Oncology and Nephrology Indications for the Class of Approved ESAs.
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When Michael Wolf paged though dusty, yellowing pharmacists' logs from the 1890s at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, he found the following entry about a druggist's encounter with a confused patient: "Shake well," a patient apparently read out loud to the pharmacist from his prescription drug bottle label. "Does that mean I shake myself."
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